Forecasts for winter storms can be uncertain even a day or two in advance.Maps showing long-range snow forecasts from individual computer models should be disregarded.
Major winter storms affect the United States every year, and due to their heavy impact on everyone's lives, the biggest question asked is: How much am I going to see?
The eagerness to know how much impact a snow or ice storm will have is understandable, but unfortunately, sometimes that question cannot be answered until within one to three days of its arrival.
This thirst to know what will happen can often be fed by those computer model forecasts of snow amounts that often go viral on social media. Sometimes you might see these maps with pretty blue, pink and purple shadings up to a week or so in ad

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